Jimmy Scott quotes
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“I grew to see my affliction as my gift. When I sang, I soared. I could soar higher than all those hurts aimed at my heart. All I needed was the courage to be me.”
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“There were times, I could say, later in the career, that I wished that my voice would be deeper for materials that I might've wanted to select to do. But that's the style of my voice. There's nothing I can do about the heighth of my voice. And so I learned to deal with it.”
-- Jimmy ScottSource : "'Fresh Air' Remembers Jazz Singer Jimmy Scott". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. June 16, 2014.
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“Freedom is never given; it is won.”
Source : Keynote speech given at the Second National Negro Congress, 1937.
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Source : A. B. Simpson (1984). “Days of Heaven on Earth: A Daily Devotional to Comfort and Inspire”, Moody Publishers
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Source : A. B. Simpson (2010). “When God Steps In: Divine Resources for Life's Situations”, p.4, Moody Publishers
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